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JAMES R. TOLLES, 



AUTHOR OF "RYTHMICAL ASTRONOMY," "GUIDE TO HEALTH," ETC. 



Sacramento, 1872. 



Sacramento : 
JEFFERIS & CO., BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS. 






ExTERKD, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, 

By JAMES R. TOLLES, 
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 



LECTUEE 



HEALTH, 



PROPER FOOD FOR MAN 



JAMES R. TOLLES, 

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AUTHOR OF "RYTHMICAL ASTRONOMY," "GUIDE TO HEALTH," ETC. 



Sacramento : 
JEFFERIS & CO., BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS 

1872. 



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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in. the year 1872, 

By JAMES E. TOLLES, 
In the OflSce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 



Index 



Page 

Animals that divide the hoof and chew the cud, how permitted to be eaten 12 

Animal and vegetable food compared, by Dr. Parish ZZ:;::. 29 

Animal and vegetable food compared, by Dr. Cheyne.... ^4 

Awful suiferings and deaths by trichina m flesh -■■■ ^^ 

Beasts overrunning the earth— fears of allayed ^^ 

Christ feeding fish to the multitude explained ^^ 

rhvist feedino- fish to the Apostles explained ■••••• 

Suftniagofcl fields-why left undiscovered until the nineteenth century 38 

Cruelty practiced in taking animals to market •"• ^^ 

Cholera and smallpox, how avoided ".",'.'.*'.!".".!".... 23 

Cholera in chickens— cause of ..•••• ^ 15 

Dominion of man over animals considered .".'.**.'.'."'.'..".'.'.".!".!'.. 23 

Diseases in cattle **,.'.".*. .**.",'.. 23 

Diseases in swine ..!,!....../........... 24 

Diseases in fowls 15 

Elijah, how fed on flesh by ravens.. _ _ 27 

Eeo-s, how cooked to be least injurious..... 28 

Experience of Dr. Beach on proper food for man •• 33 

Experience of Howard, the great philanthropist '.■■.....26-28 

Forbidden fruit plainly defined......... 20 

Flies, fleas, and other pests, origin ot _ 3q 

Interesting experience of George Paine - 3^ 

Interesting experience of George Burling _^ 32 

Interesting experience of Marshall.......... '^ 3j 

Interesting experience of Judge Woodrufi 3^ 

Interesting experience of Pennsylvania farmer 22 

Kingdom of God thrice established on earth ^g 

Killing an ox same as slaying a man ;^g 

Loss of hair, eyesight, teeth, etc....-.- vv;-;;;---'---""" ;;;; 36 

Milton's reasonable view of ancient spirit life on earth ^i 

Millennium near at hand \'""\ 'a ..." 32 

Nutriment of vegetable and animal food compared ^^ ^^ 

Natural and spiritual death explained :•••••••;•■•• 32 

Opinion o? Plutarch, the Grecian philosopher, on animal food ^^ 

Opinion of Dr. Abernethy on animal food.......... 25 

Opinion of Professor F. G. Welch on animal food ^g_^g 

Proper food for man plainly defined. ••;•:•••• 22 

Prophet Daniel's prophetic powers, how obtained •••• ^3 

Paschal lamb, how to be eaten I3 

Rise, Peter, kill and eat V'"r"V'i«"«i*,.^rintn'rp '.....' 37 

Steam cars and telegraphing prophesied of .^f SjipUir^^^^^ ^^ 

Supposed perpetual timekeeper compared with eternal lile ^ ^^ 

True philosopher's stone discovered at last ^ -j^^ 

Woman's sufi-rage, when to be permitted •-••••••••••• ;;';;; 27 

Whisky and tobacco-cravings for-how extinguished ^^ 

Whisky, what composed of 



Iftr^lace. 



tT is well known to most of the people of Sacramento tbat about seven years ago 
I was taken under spiritual control so powerfully that I considered it my duty 
to sacrifice every personal feeling and interest, and submit to its entire guidance, 
for the purpose of demonstrating to the world the extent of its power and its object 
upon humanity, whether for good or evil. I felt that the power could not demon- 
strate itself by our partial submission for only an hour or two in the evening, tipping 
tables and other mediumistic tests, while we were variously engaged during the other 
twenty-two or twenty-three hours in all the different political, religious, and social 
excitements and brain-racking confusions of the present age. I felt that every mem- 
ber of my family was in danger of being attacked by this influence at any hour, 
either before or after my death, and that I could not leave to them or to the world a 
greater legacy than an actual demonstration of what the power was, and how to avoid 
it, if it proved to be evil, or how to receive the greatest benefit from it, if it proved to 
be good. With these convictions and feelings, after due deliberation, I sacrificed 
myself entirely to its influence. Since which time I have been entirely directed in 
the selection of my food and drink, and in all my business transactions. I thought 
that some one ought to do it, and I was willing to make the sacrifice, whatever might 
be the result. 

I had up to that time been a serious doubter in regard to there being such a thing 
as that spirit power could ever operate on earth and among intelligent men, until 
this unseen power seized upon me, and moved me with as much ease as I could move 
a child's doll, or a pawn or knight upon a chess board. 

I had also up to that time been a skeptic for at least thirty years— doubting the 
genuineness and authenticity of the Bible, and likewise the divinity of Christ. But 
when this invisible power got complete control of me, by my submission, it immedi- 
ately forced me into the firm belief of all these. It scattered my skepticism to the 
winds, and made me willingly proclaim, " There is a God ! the Bible is His word— a 
history of Spiritualism from the beginning— and Jesus Christ is His Son, or God 
Himself, manifest in the flesh ! " 

It then directed me to deliver the following lecture, and spread the new and strange 
ideas therein contained broadcast to the world. 



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I did not intend to object to delivering the lecture, but felt that I could not face 
an intelligent audience composed of my old neighbors of twenty years' acquaintance 
on the subject of health and the proper food for man, accompanied with such strange 
ideas in relation to the forbidden fruit — eternal life, etc. — when' all my audience knew 
that I could not naturally know but very little about either of them. 

There would doubtless be physiologists, physicians, and divines present that I could 
not have confidence to lecture before, especially as I had been so much oppressed with 
diflSidence in delivering a lecture on astronomy, about which I claimed to have some 
scientific knowledge. 

As I before said, I did not intend to object to deliver the lecture, but while trying 
to work myself up into confidence, I delayed and neglected it, until my mind became 
partially bewildered upon the subject, and finally it passed from my memory, as 
entirely forgotten, for years. 

I then was directed to deliver a lecture upon various other subjects ten times more 
embarrassing to face an audience with, because many points in the different subjects 
were entirely outside the pale of all human probability. 

I was also directed to give phrenological examinations of heads blindfold, at any 
distance in the room the audience might select, and to have the subject selected after 
my eyes were blinded, Vhich greatly increased my embarrassment. 

I, of course, faltered and hesitated again, until I was driven to it by various perplex- 
ities, troublesome lawsuits, etc. — and was finally stricken with dumbness, until I 
delivered the lecture. 

For five weeks my speaking faculties were paralyzed, and my hand also, so that I 
could not write a word. My only means of communication was by tearing out a leaf 
having the alphabet on it from an old spelling book, and pointing out letters, which 
the person I was talking to would spell into words and pronounce them for me, and 
then give me his answer. But when I appeared in the lecture room I could talk as 
well as I ever could in my life. 

But, unfortunately for my comfort, I was made to quote a passage of Scripture as 
a foundation for my lecture, and then, before I could repeat one word of the passage 
before the audience, I had to repeat the Lord's Prayer, which so embarrassed me 
during my whole lecture, (not having been in the habit of praying in public,) that I 
could make no use of my globes, of which I had four different kinds, to make some 
astronomical representations with, which were indispensably necessary, in order to 
make certain portions of my lecture intelligible. 

At another time I was stricken with dumbness during seven weeks, but on the last 
occasion I was permitted to write. 

All this trouble was sent upon me because I did not deliver the lecture when first 
directed to. 

I am now again directed to deliver this same lecture, and dare not disobey. I hope 
you will give me your undivided attention, so that if I am deluded and also " blind, 
and led by the blind," you can discover it; and I hope you will all kindly lend a 
helping hand and save me e'er " I fall in the ditch." 

But if, on the other hand, I shall be able to demonstrate to you that I have been 
helped to discover the true philosopher's stone, (which I am really made to believe I 
have,) I then ask you to kindly lend that same helping hand to aid me in spreading the 
good tidings, until all shall be permitted to enjoy its blessings. 



A LECTURE ON HEALTH, 



THE PROPER FOOD FOR MAN 



P 



ECTION 1. 



MONG all the subjects now agitating the human mind, 
causing differences of opinion and bloody conflicts 
among neighboring individuals and communities, fre- 
quently causing nation to rise against nation, and kingdom 
against kingdom — marshaling huge armies and drenching 
the world in blood — there is, happily or unhappily, as the 
case may be, one subject about which we all agree, viz: that 
mankind in the present age of the world are subject to sick- 
ness, sorrow, and death. 

If, as philosophy claims, "there is no effect without a 
cause," then certainly there is a cause for all these. 

The great and important question then is, what is that 
cause ? I answer, without the least fear of successful contra- 
diction, that it is the unfortunate selection of food that we 
eat. If we can credit the sacred Scriptures, there was a 
time when man innocently roamed among the fragrant bow- 
ers of Eden, subsisting strictly upon the food which God 
had ordained ; when the feathered songsters were permitted 
to -femrlessly warble in the groves; when the playful lamb 
and other animals freely ranged the sunny hillside or grassy 
plains unconscious of danger; when the nimble fishes were 
happily sporting in their native element, faithfully fulfilling 



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tlieir destiny of " multiplying and filling the waters of the 
seas," that man was not subject to sickness, sorrow and 
deatli ; nor the latter until eight hundred years afterwards, 
when his system became so saturated with the unnatural and 
gangrenous influence of the forbidden fruit that death became 
a necessity. 

The question now presents itself, what was the" forbidden 
fruit? 

The most easy and quickest way to define what it was is, 
first to define what it was not. And I am instructed to apply 
to the Bible for testimony. 

It was not "the herb-bearing seed," which embraces wheat, 
corn, oats, and all the cereals. llTeither was it " the fruit of 
the fruit tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself," embrac- 
ing figs, grapes, almonds. Paradise nuts, Brazil nuts, walnuts, 
chestnuts, cocoanuts, bananas, and all the different tropical 
and other nuts and fruits " whose seed is in itself; " or, in 
other words, whose seed is in the fruit. 

Let me explain: The fruit of an apple or pear has no 
seed in the fruit ; that which we eat, the fruit, has no seed 
in it ; the seed is in a pit or shell inside of a core, which is 
entirely separate from the fruit. The peach, plum, cherry, 
and others are the same or similar. Their seed is in a pit, 
which is inside of a stone. The fruit which we eat, if 
planted, will not grow. But the fruit of all the others 
named, if planted, will germinate and reproduce themselves. 

'Now I think it is plain to be seen that the forbidden fruit 
could not have been any of the articles herein named, for 
the former, the " herb-bearing seed and the fruit of the fruit 
tree yielding fruit, whose seed is in itself," were particularly 
set apart for man's food, with these most emphatic words : 
" To you it shall be for meat." And it certainly could not 
have been the latter — the apple, pear, peach, etc. — because 
the inference is fair that there were none of these in exist- 
ence at the time. The twelfth verse of the first chapter of 
Genesis is supposed to give a complete list of all the vegeta- 
tion that was created in the beginning, and those not having 
the seed in the fruit are not named in that list. They are 
no doubt of later origin, by a cross between other fruits, as 
of the apricot, nectarine, etc. 

But if they were then in existence, the sixteenth verse of 
the second chapter of Genesis gives man full and complete 
authority to eat them. It reads : " And the Lord God com- 
manded the man, [no common language] saying, of ^ every 
tree of the garden thou may est freely eat." 

The seventeenth verse says : " But of the tree of the knowl- 



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edge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day 
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." 

Verse sixteenth, taken in connection with verse ninth, 
ivhich reads, " And out of the ground made the Lord God 
to grow every tree that is good for food," clearly shows that 
man's food was to be no other than such as grows out of the 
ground, and possessed of no ''knowledge of good or evil." 

I think I have clearly shown that the forbidden fruit does 
not exist in the vegetable kingdom. iN'o man has ever yet 
claimed that it exists in the mineral kingdom. 

]^ow as all nature that we know anything about or have 
any idea of is divided up into these three grand divisions : 
the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms, and as I have 
conclusively proved that it cannot be either of the two latter, 
it must exist in the former or animal kingdom, which has a 
knowledge of good and evil. 

Man has five senses and no more : hearing, seeing, smelling, 
tasting, and feeling, which are the only means by which he 
discriminates between pain and pleasure, and by which he 
has a knowledge of good and evil. 

Every lower animal belonging to the zoological catalogue 
has exactly those same senses, and is a locomotive tree of 
life the same as man, and has a knowledge of good and 
evil the same as man. T^^^y suffer the pangs of hunger, 
and, when properly fed, relish their food the same as man. 
They are made of flesh and blood, and propagate their 
species the same as man. God made a covenant with them, 
after the flood, the same as with man. They are locomotive 
trees in the midst of the garden — trees of the knowledge of 
good and evil — walking about amidst the trees of the garden 
which grow out of the ground, or flying amidst their 
branches, or swimming amidst the waters of the garden. 
And the fruit of these trees in the midst of the garden is 
their flesh, between the skin and bone, the same as the fruit 
of a peach or plum- is, between the skin and stone. It is 
generally supposed that the tree in the midst of the garden 
was an apple tree, growing out of the ground in the middle 
of the garden, having a peculiarly flavored fruit, which God 
commanded Adam not to eat. But not so. "Amidst" and 
" amongst " are nearly or quite synonymous terms, and our 
lexicographers, in the very language they use in defining the 
two words, prove conclusively to my mind that they are 
synonymous. Adam and Eve " hid amongst the trees of 
the garden." l^o person will contend that they hid in the 
ground. 

''Kow the serpent was more subtle (cunning) than any 
beast of the field. And he said unto the woman, ' Yea, hath 
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God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? ' And 
the woman said unto the serpent, ' We may eat of the fruit 
of the trees of the garden ; but of the fruit of the tree in 
the midst of the garden God hath said ye shall not eat of it, 
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.' " Her language plainly 
shows that she considered the trees of the garden to be those 
that grew out of the ground. But the tree in the midst of 
the garden, and having a knowledge of good and evil, was 
of an entirely different nature. If " the fruit of the tree in 
the midst of the garden " was flesh, then the expression 
neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die," is reasonable ; as the 
animal must be slaughtered and the skin peeled off before 
the fruit could be touched. But upon no other consideration 
is it at all intelligible after " God had commanded the man 
saying, of every tree of the garden thou may est freely eat." 
But nevertheless, after being assured by the serpent that 
" she should not surely die," (death of the body, of course,) 
" but that she should be as gods, knowing good and evil," 
she partook of the frait, and gave to her husband, etc. 

Now mark the result. They immediately died a spiritual 
death — a death which they probably had not thought of 
before. That is, the spirit of God was withdrawn from 
them. They could no more talk with God in their wander- 
ings, but were left completely enveloped in sorrows inde- 
scribable, which they knew not of before. And, besides, 
enmity was placed between them and all the lower animals. 
ISTo more pets could they fondle with and caress, without the 
danger of being goaded or stung, among all the animal crea- 
tion. They were cut off from all association and communi- 
cation, both above and below their own species. What- 
nonsense, then, to contend that the forbidden fruit was an 
apple, and the eating of it caused God to place enmity 
between man and the lower animals, after he commanded 
the man to perfect freedom in eating of every tree which 
grew out of the ground ! 

The forbidden fruit was not an apple, neither was it sexual 
considerations, as many persons contend; for the second 
command given to man was to "be fruitful and multiply and 
replenish the earth." The forbidden frnit was exactly the 
flesh of animals, and nothing else. Consequently enmity 
would naturally grow put of the cruel and bloody transac- 
tion. Adam and Eve slaughtered the animals and ate their 
flesh, as there was no one else on the earth at the time to 
do it, and coats of the animals' skins were made for them; 
and they had to wear them no doubt as a partial punishment 
to add to their sorrows. Here is a picture of them in the 
state they were then in, which was copied from an illustrated 



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SPIEITUAL DEATH. 



Bible. They are the most doleful and sorrowful looking 
objects I ever beheld. 

Yet, notwithstanding their sor- 
rowful looks. God says to the wo- 
man, " I will greatly multiply thy 
sorrows, and thy desire shall be to 
thy husband, and he shall rule 
over thee." 

Previous to their eating the for- 
bidden fruit God ordained that 
man '' should cleave unto his wife, 
and they should be one flesh." 
That is, be on a perfect equality 
with each other. 

I am willing, personally, and 
even anxious that woman should 
be on an equality now in suffrage, 
in legislation, and all other privi- 
leges that she aspires to; but since the transgression the 
fiat has gone forth that " man should rule over her." And 
all the w^omen conventions that can ever be assembled 
in this country and all others will effect about as much 
towards the accomplishment of that object as to stir a finger 
in the ocean to make its currents flow in a certain direc- 
tion, when the mighty billows, backed by a tornado, all 
come dashing and foaming the other way. Almighty God 
has decreed their subjection to man, until they freely acknowl- 
edge their error, retrace their steps, entirely abstain from 
eating the forbidden fruit, and use their influence in future 
to "destroy not the works of God for meat," but "let the 
fishes multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let fowl 
multiply in the earth, and let the earth bring forth the living 
creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast 
of the earth after his kind, and hinder them not," which is 
the first command of God to man. And when they willingly 
present to man, as a faithful helpmeet, the original vegetable 
food w^hich God ordained that man should eat, uncontami- 
nated with any foreign substance, then she may reasonably 
expect to be restored to her former privileges, on perfect 
equality with man, but not before. 

The rule that they must be strictly guided by is, to " touch 
not, taste not, handle not that which all must perish with 
the using." 

JSTow^ what substance is it that carries the sweeping denun- 
ciation with it that " all must perish wnth the using ? " 

All must agree with me, I think, that it is the fruit of the 
tree of knowledge of good and evil, for no other substance 



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that I know of is thus condemned between the lids of the 
Bible. 

" On the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely 
die," or perish, meaning the same. *' Perish with the using." 

It has been sufficiently proved that they did die a spiritual 
death on that very da}-, and that both spiritual and natural 
death were in consequence of eating the fruit of the tree of 
the knowledge of good and evil. 

" And unto Adam he said, " Because thou hast barkened 
unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of 
which I commanded thee, saying, thou shalt not eat of it, in 
sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the d^js of thy life. In the 
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," (presupposing that 
bread material grew spontaneously before,) "till thou return 
to the ground — for out of it wast thou taken — for of dust 
thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." 

This is the first expression in the Bible in relation to the 
death of the body, (which is the second death,) and the man- 
ner of the expression presupposes the idea that man need 
not have diecl a natural death had not the forbidden fruit 
been eaten. 

A gentleman said to me as follows : " You do not pretend 
to deny that man has a right to eat the flesh of animals that 
divide the hoof and chew the cud, do you ? " I answered, 
"I do most emphatically, unless the flesh is entirely separated 
from the fat and the blood, which is an utter impossibility." 
The third chapter of Leviticus declares, *'It shall be a perpet- 
ual statute for your generations, throughout all your dwell- 
ings, that fe eat neither fat nor blood." 

]^o man attempts to separate the fat from the flesh of 
either beast, fowl, or fish, but makes them as fat as he can, 
when fattened by himself; or, if fattened by others, he inva- 
riably selects the fattest he can find. And in all the smaller 
animals, not only the fat, but the blood is left in them, such 
as rabbits, hares, squirrels, birds, geese, ducks, and (fther 
fowls. They are shot down and thrown in piles, or bagged, 
for market, without attempting to drain off the blood, only 
what little escapes through the bullet or shot holes. 

Fishes also, both the finny and crustacean species, (the 
latter "are an abomination" — Leviticus, xi: 10,) are caught 
by the shipload and served in the same way. And, in the first 
place, if the fat and blood could be entirely extracted, the dry 
flesh or muscle, without the rich, oily moistening influence of 
either flit or blood, w^ould be thrown awa}^ as useless. There- 
fore the above quotation alone (and I can produce a dozen 
more similar quotations) amounts to absolute prohibition. 



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'' Well, at all events," says lie, '' you do not deny the right 
of the Jews to eat the Paschal lamb ? " 

'^ Most assuredly I do," I answered, " unless they comply 
with the entire ordinance, which they never do." ^ ^ 

"And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it m the 
blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel," (which is 
the face casing, or stone, or brick cap piece over the door,) 
" and the two side posts with the blood that is m the basin, 
and none of vou shall go out at the door of his house until 
the morning: And ye shall observe this thing for an ordi- 
nance to thee and to thy sons forever."— Exodus, xi: 7, ZZ, 

Who besmears his house with blood in that manner at the 
present day? Kemember it must be done ''by them and 

their sons forever." . -, t i i 

Kow unless the whole ordinance is observed as above, and 

eaten with unleaven bread, and with bitter herbs, tney are 

positively restricted from eating it at all. Therefore it 

amounts to positive prohibition . ^o. flo.i. 

Many persons contend that it is right for man to eat lle&h 

because Peter, in the vision, was commanded to " rise, slay, 

and eat. "— Acts, x: 9th to 16th. • 1 4. ,^ 

They mio-ht about as well say that Adam had a right to 

eat it because the serpent offered it to him. To Peter had 

been o-iven the key to the kingdom of Heaven, which was 

univeSal happiness as it existed among all the animals-man, 

beast, bird, and fishes-in the Garden of Eden in the begm- 

nino;, e'er angel Adam fell. , -, . n 

Peter remembered that Christ had taken him away from 
his employment of kiUing animals, fishing etc., and that he 
had been promised to be made a fisher of men, instead of 
fishes He also had the warning of Adam's sorrows betore 
him for accepting the same temptation, and the command- 
ment of God " Thou Shalt not kill," and the commandment 
of Christ "Thou shalt do no murder," also before him, and 
he very wisely said, -Kot so. Lord, for I have never eaten 
am thing that is common or unclean." (Of course he meant 
shice he^ad been called from his fishing.) "And the voice 
spake again the second and third time; but he did not eat, 
and the vessel was received up again into Heaven. 

Now recollect these animals which Peter was commanded 
to kill and eat were all earthly animals in Heaven, where 
they belong. Heaven and earth were together, as m the 

^'He''''liw Heaven opened and a certain vessel wherein 
were all manner of four-footed beasts of the earth and wild 
beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air. And 



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there came a voice to him, ^Rise, Peter, kill and eat.'" 
Heaven and earth were together, most assuredly, for "what- 
ever Peter bound on earth" (while he kept himself pure) 
*' was bound in Heaven; and whatever Peter loosed on earth 
was loosed in Heaven." And Christ says, "But if I cast 
out devils by the spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is 
come unto you." — Matt, xii: 28. 

So many passages can be introduced to prove that Christ 
did cast out devils by tlie spirit of God, that all who believe 
the testimony must be sufficiently familiar with them with- 
out introducing an}^ 

The kingdom of God was then witli man on the earth, or 
it could not be taken from them and given to another nation, 
as expressed in Matt, xxi : 43. And it will come again. " For 
I say unto you I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until 
the kingdom of God shall come." Christ's own words. 
Luke xxii: 18. 

The great and happifying truth is, that Heaven and earth 
were made for man, and man was made for Heaven and 
earth, and will be permitted to enjoy both here on earth 
when he submits his will to God and abstains from eating 
the forbidden fruit, a privilege which Peter and the other 
Apostles lost when they went afishing. 

Peter had been one of the most active and faithful of the 
Apostles, possessing great power for healing the sick and 
the lame, and performing other miracles for a long time 
after the crucifixion, fearlessly contending against every 
obstacle until all but six of the Apostles besides himself had 
been killed, and up to the time he finall}^ succumbed to out- 
side pressure and went afishing again, as we find recorded by 
John in the twenty-first chapter of his Gospel, which appears 
to have been written among the closing scenes of his life, (he 
being the last survivor of the Apostles,) and a long time 
after the other twenty chapters had been written. 

Peter was ridiculed, beat, kicked, cuff'ed, spit upon, and 
imprisoned, etc., for daring to be a Christian; and being 
poor, he finally yielded to outside pressure, and " saith unto 
them, ' I go afishing.' They say unto him, ' we also go 
with thee.' " 

As is expressed in 2d Peter, 2, 22 — Peter's own words : 
" The dog is returned to his own vomit again, and the sow 
that was washed to her wallowing in the mire." Christ said 
to his Apostles while they were strict followers of Him, "Ye 
are the light of the world." " Ye are the salt of the earth; 
but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be 
salted ? It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast 
out and to be trodden under foot of men." 



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"When the Apostles went afishing the salt then and there 
*' lost its savor." They were no more " the light of the 
world." Their miraculous powers, infallibility, etc., forever 
fled from them, like the dew^ of the morning. They "hid 
their light under a bushel " and became again as common 
men. If a knowledge of Peter's losses inclines people to 
slay and eat, go on and eat, I shall not. 

Many persons also contend that as God gave Adam domin- 
ion over the fishes of the sea, fowls of the air, and beasts of 
the earth, that gives us a right to kill and eat them. C-Jod 
also gave the Egyptians dominion over the Israelites, the 
"Southern States dominion over their slaves, and to every 
king or other potentate dominion over his subjects. 

Now if giving dominion over the fishes, fowls, and beasts 
gives authority to kill and eat them, it gives the others named 
authority to do the same. And if that is the case, we might 
as well all turn cannibals at once. The idea requires no 
argument, especially as we are so positively commanded in 
general terms to let them multiply. If we kill them we do 
not let them multiply, that is certain. 

Others think that if beasts are not killed for food they 
will become so numerous in time they will entirely overrun 
the world. If they do they will become evil no matter how 
innocent and domestic they are now. And God says (Levit- 
icus, xxvi : 3, 6 : "If ye walk in my statutes and keep my 
commandments I will rid evil beasts out of the land." 

A lady once said to me, after I had replied to several of 
her objections to my ideas, " Well, there is one passage that 
you cannot explain away; that is, w^here God commanded 
Elijah to eat flesh, and sent his angel in the form of a raven 
to feed it to him." 

"Yes," I replied, "Elijah ate flesh at that time about as 
the doctor's horse did oats, when he ordered his servant to 
water him and feed him a peck of oats, then to saddle and lead 
him out again. The servant did as ordered, and when the 
horse was led out the doctor says, ' He looks thin and hollow ; 
did you water him ? ' 'I did, and he drank heartily.' 'Did 
you feed him the peck of oats, as I told you ? ' ' Yes, I fed 
him the peck of oats, but he would not eat, and I could not 
eat the oats into him, so he will have to remain hollow.' " 
So with the ravens. They fed Elijah flesh, but they could 
not eat it into him. Neither did he eat it, for the passage 
says, 1st Kings, xvii: 3, 5, that he "did as the Lord com- 
manded him." And the Lord did not command him to 
eat flesh; neither did the Lord command the ravens to feed 
him flesh, but simply commanded them to feed him. He 
commanded Elijah to "hide by the brook Cherith," and 



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also commanded liim to " drink of the brook Cherith." 
And Elijah did both exactly as commanded. He was too 
cunning to eat flesh simply because the ravens brought it to 
him, when God had not commanded him to eat it, and also 
when the Bible was so full of commands not to eat it. So 
much for good old Elijah. If all would as closely scrutinize 
and be as obedient in doing exactly as commanded as he 
was, there would be fewer infidels in the world, and ravens 
and serpents would have less influence. 

There are passages in the New Testament recording inci- 
dents in the life of Christ where he appeared to feed the 
flesh of fish to the people, which nobody has mentioned, and 
which a few comments may make it appear that it was not 
fish, but something having the appearance of fish, which he 
created on the spot. I wish to give the objector the benefit 
of the strongest passages in the Bible, and therefore quote 
these of my own accord. 

At the instance recorded by John, chapter 6, 5th to 13th 
verses, when he fed the five thousand men, besides women 
and children, "Jesus saith unto Philip, 'Whence shall we 
buy bread that these may eat? ' And this he said to prove 
him, for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered 
him, ' Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufiicient for 
them, that every one of them may take a little.' Andrew, 
Peter's brother, saith unto him, ' There is a lad here which 
hath five barley loaves and two small fishes ; but what are 
they among so many? ' Jesus commanded them to sit down 
upon the grass, and he swelled the quantity until it fed them 
to the full, and afterwards took up twelve basketsful." Kow 
as a basket, where the quantity it holds is not given, is con- 
sidered a bushel by general consent, there must have been a 
cart load of the fragments ; and they also must have eaten a 
half dozen cart loads, for it would take at least that quantity- 
to " fill " five thousand men, besides women and children, 
and the Evangelist says they were " filled." 

l!Tow who was this lad ? His name is not given, neither is 
he again mentioned, either before or afterwards. Would 
he, if a man, have lumbered himself up with five loaves and 
two fishes for his own eating ? Would he, if he wanted to 
make money by selling to such a vast multitude, have carried 
so little where wagon loads would be needed ? I think not. 
The only natural conclusion that I can come to (and the 
spirit sanctions it) is, that the bread and something having 
the appearance of fishes were created right there, and that 
the lad was an angel sent by the mighty God, just in time to 
assist in performing the wonderful miracle. For certainly 
the power that could swell so small an amount to such 



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immense proportions could create the whole, lad and all, as 
when first introduced. 

Another instance is related by the same Evangelist of 
Christ's feeding fish to the Apostles, at the time they went 
afishing, as before referred to. (Johnxxi: 12.) It appears 
that they had toiled all night and " caught nothing." " But 
when the morning was come Jesus stood on the shore, but 
the Disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus saith 
unto them, ' Children, have ye any meat ? ' They answered 
Him ' ^N'o.' And He said unto them, ' Cast the net on the 
right side of the ship.' " They did so, and immediately the 
net was filled with fishes. And when they came drawing 
their net to the shore, and before they had landed their 
fishes, " they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, 
and bread." 

There is not a Bible believer in Christendom but what 
believes that that miraculous draught of fishes was created 
right there by the miraculous power of Christ. And if he 
had power to create those, he had power to create that on 
the coals, and the coals also. And the only reasonable con- 
clusion to come to is, that it was not fish, but some substance 
that Christ created resembling fish. For he certainly did 
not take any that the Apostles had just caught, neither is it 
recorded that he had a net with him, or any other imple- 
ments for catching fish, neither could he require them for 
food, for it was a long time after his crucifixion and ascen- 
sion. The Apostles desired fish, and had gone afishing, and 
Christ "gave them" (what appeared to be) "their own 
desire," as was given to the Israelites when they clamored 
for the flesh pots of Egypt.— Ps. Ixxii: 29, 30, 31. 



P 



ECTION 2, 



I have in the foregoing introduced many passages as strong 
as Holy Writ can make them to prove that the eternal God, 
who made both us and them, has commanded us not to kill 
the lower animals and appropriate their carcasses for our 
food. I could introduce hundreds more of the same import, 
but if the foregoing will not convince, more of the same per- 
haps would not. I will now turn my attention to the con- 
sideration of the diseased state in which these carcasses are 
served up, the eftect they have upon the human system, and 
the efiect that the total abstinence of flesh and the substitu- 
tion of vegetable food, fruits, cereals, etc., also has upon the 
system. 



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In the first place animal food is not living food. It has 
passed through the agonies of death before it passes into the 
hands of the cook, and therefore is not the proper food for 
man. " The herb-bearing seed and the fruit of the fruit tree 
yielding fruit, whose seed is in the fruit," is living food, and 
therefore is the proper food for man. Potatoes, turnips, 
onions, parsnips, peas, beans, rice, wheat, and all the other 
cereals, and all the different kinds of vegetable food are liv- 
ing food. A piece of beefsteak, the fruit of the tree of life 
and of knowledge of good and evil, is not living food, and 
of course is not the kind of fruit having seed in itself, which 
man was commanded to eat. It is not food while in the ox, 
but has to pass through the agonies of death before it 
becomes food. Now suppose the ox is in a perfectly healthy 
state when killed, (and Isaiah says, Ixvi: 3, " he that killeth 
an ox is the same as if he slew a man,") there are but a few 
parts of the human system that gather any sustenance from 
it (principally the muscles and fat) for the reason that the 
rest is all cut away. The bones, teeth, cords, ligaments, 
cartilages, lubricating fluid for the joints, brains, nerves, eyes, 
hair, lungs, stomach, intestines, etc., get no sustenance from 
animal food; and consequently our teeth soon decay, our 
eyes grow dim, our heads become bald, our lungs weaken, 
etc., long before our muscles give out. 

My own eyesight was so poor seven years ago, when I 
first commenced using vegetable food exclusively, that I 
could not read a word with one pair of common spectacles, 
but was obliged to use two pairs. I can now read comfort- 
ably with one pair, though I usually use two pairs, as two 
are a little more comfortable than one. Also at that time 
the top and back of my head was quite bald, especially the 
crown was as bare as my forehead. The hair is now coming 
in again, so that there is no place but what is covered with 
fine hair. 

A lady once said to her husband, '' Shall I help you to 
steak, liver, or tongue?" He jokingly replied, "As every 
part strengthens a part, in order to keep even with you in 
talking, I will take tongue, my dear." 

It is no joke, I assure you, that every part strengthens a 
part. Nature's great laboratory divides up and separates the 
vegetable food which the ox eats, extracting from the mass 
each part its afiinity. That which will make bone and teeth 
is attracted to and manufactured into bone and teeth ; that 
which will make cords and ligaments, into cords and liga- 
ments, and so with all the other parts. 

We might as well undertake to make a huge golden image 
like Nebuchadnezzar's from quartz rock, from which all the 



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gold has been previously extracted, as to manufacture beef- 
steak into human bones. As well undertake to make the 
onion or French garlic express the fragrance of the rose. 
ITature's great laboratory makes no such grand mistakes. 
As the bone must be ground and pulverized and return to 
its original elements before it can fertilize the earth, so the 
flesh and fat must decay and return to their original elements 
before they fertilize any other portion of tlie body except 
the flesh and fat. The stomach, the body's laboratory, per- 
forms no suck ofiice. But the proper food for man, " the 
kerb-bearing seed," etc., and all the different varieties of the 
vegetable kingdom, just as the appetite craves them, when 
the will is carefully and fully submitted to the power that 
created us, will fertilize not only the muscles and fat, but 
also the nerves, brain, eyes, hair, teeth, and every other por- 
tion of the human system as nature requires ; and I am 
made to proclaim that '' the result will be perpetual youth 
and health ; " that God is always with us, and rules us all 
in whatever we do. Those who submit to His will He rules 
according to His own good will and pleasure, and will lead 
them to glory such as " eye hath not seen, ear heard, neither 
have entered into the heart of man." But those who will 
not submit to His will He rules according to their own will 
and '^ broad way," which leads to the certain destruction of 
the body, in which he compels them to accept the result of 
their own will. But the spirit of that body will not be lost. 
It will be born again and again, and will have to pass through 
another and another probationary state, until it accepts the 
terms of salvation, and purifies and earns a body for eternal 
life. Then " old things will have passed away, and all things 
will have become new " with that body. 

This view of the case shows how God may be *' no 
respecter of persons." He has power to cause us all, in the 
diff'erent lives we are made to live, to occupy all the differ- 
ent grades between " the rich man and Lazarus," or between 
the king on his throne and the beggar at his footstool, and 
keep us all in utter ignorance of all our former lives, until 
we purify a body, and then show us, by restoring the mem- 
ory, the different vicissitudes we have passed through, so 
that the contrast may be ever vivid between those vicissi- 
tudes and the ever happy millennium that will follow. " But 
if in this one life we only have hope, we are of all men most 
miserable," and we have every reason to believe that God is 
a " respecter of persons." But He has declared in the most 
positive terms that " He is no respecter of persons," and 
that "the righteous" (which all may become if they will) 
" shall go into life eternal." 



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iN'aturally it does not seem to be possible for me to live 
eternally, nor any of my posterity to the third or fourth 
generation, for I was a partaker of the forbidden fruit until 
over Aft}' years of age. But the power controlling me declares 
that God designed from the beginning that all should become 
righteous at a certain age of the world, known only to him- 
self, and live eternally, even though they come in at the 
eleventh hour; and the Bible sanctions it in numerous pas- 
sages, and further says : " And God shall wipe away all 
tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain, for the former things are passed away." What former 
things? Why, death, sorrow, crying, pain, etc. But our 
bodies must be cleansed by ourselves, as the Apostle has 
told us: "This mortal" (not this spirit, as most people 
believe) " must put on immortality," etc. 

Christ came to bring life and immortality of the body to 
light. Not the life and immortality of the spirit, for that 
had been brought to light long before. Both the Pharisees 
and the Essences believed in the immortality of the spirit 
long before Christ's advent. But the Sadducees did not 
believe in that doctrine. 

Now, in relation to second or more probation ar\' states, 
Jesus says, " Yerily, verily, I say unto thee except a man be 
born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." Why? 
Because the kingdom of God was then passing away, being 
shut up by the stubbornness of the Scribes, Pharisees, and 
hypocrites about the time when Christ said, " The kingdom 
of God is within you." He says to them, "Woe unto you, 
for ye shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men, for ye 
neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are 
entering to go in." 

The mysteries of the kingdom of God were given, to them 
in parables, "that seeing they might not see, and hearing 
they might not understand," while they continued to eat the 
forbidden fruit. 

The kingdom of Heaven has been thrice to our certain 
knowledge (if we credit the testimony) instituted upon earth. 
First, in the Garden of Eden; second, in the ark; and third, 
in the time of Christ and the Apostles. 

It was first shut up by the disobedience of Adam ; second, 
by Noah, in slaughtering the animals that God had com- 
manded him to place in the ark, and again commanded him 
to bring forth from the ark, to again " multiply and replen- 
ish the earth ; " and third, by the Scribes, Pharisees, and 
hypocrites, and finally acceded to by the Apostles when they 
went afishing. 



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The kingdom of God will again be instituted on the earth 
when man receives the light which has so long been offered, 
and purities his body by living on the food which God ordained 
for him. God looked down from Heaven and said, " They 
are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, 
no not one." Now what have we all done that God has com- 
manded us not to do, which brings such a sweeping denun- 
ciation upon us that "we are altogether become filthy," 
except eating the filthy forbidden fruit? It is exactly that, 
and nothing else. People may delude themselves with the 
idea that it was something that Adam and Eve did that 
brings trouble and sorrow upon them as long as they please ; 
but the}' will wake up to the trutli some time, and find that 
each man is his own Adam, and that each woman is her own 
Eve. We all have the same commandment before us that 
Adam and Eve had, and all break it precisely as they did. 
Now before " old things can pass away and all things become 
new," we must each one renew our allegiance to God, which 
Adam and Eve departed from for themselves, and which 
each one of us have departed from for ourselves, by following 
exactly in their footsteps. Let us, like the humble prodigal 
son, return now. For " blessed is he that shall eat bread in 
the kingdom of God." Not flesh, but bread (Luke xiv: 15). 
" Verih% I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit 
of the vine until I drink it new in the kingdom of God." 
(Mark xiv: 25). Remember this was said by Christ at the 
last supper, and if words mean anything His second advent 
is certain. The great millennium and the second advent of 
Christ are no delusions. " There is a good time coming " 
for all, as fast as we submit. Let us prepare ourselves for 
its enjoyment by obeying the commandments, and patiently 
" wait a little longer." 

But I was speaking of the ox and of animal food, and 
must return or my lecture will be too long. The ox is not 
always in a perfectly healthy state. Not one liver in a 
dozen is in a perfectly healthy state. We all know that 
w^ien a man's liver is affected the whole system is more or 
less in a febrile state. So also with the ox. The arteries, 
veins, and other avenues through which the blood so rapidly 
moves pass the disease upon its first attack to all parts of 
the system. 

The butchers (and I speak of them with the most kindly 
feelings, for they act from habit and from necessity, and I 
hope m time to see all their shops making more money by 
being turned into bakeries,) cut ofi" large quantities of dis- 
eased green or black ulcerated spots from most all the livers 
(as do all the families when they butcher) before they offer 



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it for sale in their stalls. And there are numerous other 
diseases. The heart, the lungs, and the kidneys are equally 
diseased ; the latter frequently with horrible worms. 

]^ow all these diseases affect the flesh, and when that is 
eaten it breeds diseases in the human system ; slightly, per- 
haps, at first, but from long continuance of the habit of eat- 
ing it, into different deeply seated diseases : worms in chil- 
dren, headaches, dyspepsias, dysenteries, fevers, and others 
in adults. And I am assured in the most positive manner 
by the power controlling me that cholera, small pox, measles, 
and all the different epidemic and contagious diseases are 
invited into the system by the corrupt, ulcerated, and rotten 
state of portions of the interior man, which is caused by 
eating animal food ; and that the different pests that afflict 
us: flies, fleas, bedbugs, and lice, are hatched from the 
trichina existing in the flesh of the different animals we eat 
after having been eaten by the different flesh eating animals, 
man included, and that they will disappear when man ceases 
to eat flesh. And I am also assured that if we abstain 
entirely from eating flesh we need not fear the cholera or 
any of the other diseases named. And I will state, as a 
partial corroboration, that my grandchildren, three in num- 
ber, aged from two and a half to six years, who have never 
eaten any flesh, have never had the slightest symptom of 
worms since they were born. 

Now if animal food is necessary for man, why was Manoah, 
the mother of Sampson, commanded not to eat it? And is' 
it not strange that her offspring should be possessed of such 
great strength as one of the results of her abstinence ? Why 
was Daniel, Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego possessed of 
such miraculous powers by abstaining from its use ? Why 
was not Joseph commanded to preserve immense quantities 
of bacon, hams, and thousands of barrels of salted beef and 
pork during the seven years of plenty, while the animals 
were fat, as well as immense quantities of corn, to prepare 
for the seven years of famine ? 

Why did not Christ pray for flesh when he prayed for 
bread ? There cannot possibly be but one answer. It was 
not and is not necessary, but was forbidden. 

Its eftects upon the human system are sickness, sorrow, 
and death. But entire vegetable food does not produce 
these efl'ects. Even if thei article has commenced to decay — 
a potato, for instance — the decayed spots may be cut off" and 
the rest may be perfectly healthy. There are no arteries, 
veins, and other avenues through which the juices circulate 
to render the whole potato instantaneously unfit for use, as 
is the case in the animal construction. 



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But tliere are other diseases in animals, the flesh of which 
is used for food, to confirm which I will read a few extracts 
from the different journals of the day, some of which you 
all have no doubt read, but which have been perused m such 
scattered fragments, one at a time, that the first is trequently 
forgotten before another is read : 

Section 3. 

Thk Albany Register of February 18th, 1871, says : « Several of our citizen^ h^ave 
lost valuable cow/ in the last few days, as well as young cattle. Cattle tl^at weie 
ippal-entiy in good health in the evening were found dead m the mormng. No opm- 
imi has been advanced as to the cause ot this sudden fatality. 

- A Dis-^rsE has been prevalent among the cows owned in the southern part of the. 
Citv of A^xandHa, Virginia, for a week or so past, and has extended so rapidly that 
thfM.vt- has felt this^lut; to issue a proclamation concerning it. Tae anunals 
are first affeced with sore liios and mouths, then the udder becomes inflamed, and 
finalttVe hoot are invaded by the disease and in some cases are reported to have 
dropped off."— Zancaseer {Pa.) Express, May bth, 1871. 

nisPASED Swine.— The Contra Costa Gazette of November 5th, 18a, has tne 

hams, bacon sides, spareribs, and S^nume domestic sausage ;ut ea^^^^^ 
the commission houses sel the calves sent to tnem °o ' ; suppose, is that 



LT^a ttTivr.'S%ir.;r^'iJ::?;«.ea;'£^. has .... ....... without 

avail." . ^^^^1- _ fr. thp New York Evening Post, 1871, 

"The New Cattle ^■''"^'^•^fCiS cattle feaTers at the ravages of this 

%;::^ntsrre|ef:^^^^^^^^^^^ 



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there less than in the New England States. The consumers of milk are much exer- 
cised on the occasion, and they have good cause to be. The infection has not only 
extended to neat cattle, but to horses and other animals, and the Governor of Rhode 
Island has issued a proclamation even calling on the authorities of tawns to use what- 
ever powers they have to prevent the spread of the pest, which he terms an " exceed- 
ingly infectious and contagious disease." In Massachusetts the State Commissioners 
have carefully investigated its character, history, and atlinities, and its qualities are 
sufficient to create alarm. In that State large numbers of diseased cattle have been 
found in the towns of Cambridge and Medford, and in the yards of Brighton, and 
their removal from those plaoes has been prohibited until further notice. The Post 
says : ' The disease is an eruption, which first appears in the mouth ; and the cattle 
afflicted eat with difficulty or not at all. In the second stage it breaks out between 
the claws of the feet, and then, in cows, it is sure soon to strike the udder, when it is 
considered fatal. In other animals it does not directly destroy life, but it is very 
obstinate even under the best treatment, and after the eruption is gone the recovery 
is slow. The poison is readily communicated by contact with a diseased animal, or 
with any of its saliva, or of the skin, which peels off the mouth and falls in flakes in 
the stall. But not only the stalls and food are infected, but the soil of the yards in 
which the cattle stand is poisoned by their feet to a considerable depth, and healthy 
animals which pass through these yards are liable to contract the disease. Even the 
clothes or hands of a person who has been near the sick animal will carry the infection 
to others. There is much alarm on the subject in the Boston cattle market, and the 
State Commissioners now ask the Legislature for an appropriation to enable them to 
take vigorous steps for exterminating the pestilence.' " 

"All agricultural New England is alarmed by the prevalence of a new cattle 
disease called epizootic aptha, which has spread with wonderful rapidity and disas- 
trous results. More than two months ago a fine steer in the yards at Brighton was 
found to be sick with a novel disease. It began in his head, which swelled, and a 
sore appeared ; then slimy matter issued from his mouth, which, together with his 
nostrils, was covered with small blisters. The disease spread to other cattle in the 
yards, and was rapidly disseminated through New England. It seems to yield to 
careful treatment, but the physicians say that the meat and milk of the diseased cows 
are poisonous, and the public is naturally alarmed about the matter." — Boston Cor- 
respondence of the Snerameiito Union, January 17th, 1871. 

*' Thk San Jose Independent advises its readers to examine their game, and says a 
wild duck, with the skin unbroken, and apparently healthy, was found to be full of 
parasites in the form of worms." 

"The Cattle Disease. — Boston, January 10th, 1871. — The 'foot and mouth 
disease, so called, of which I advised you in a former letter, is said to be spreading to 
an alarming extent in this State, and has recently extended into Rhode Island. It 
is said to be so highly contagious that persons who have gone to see cattle affected 
have returned and communicated it to their own stock through their clothes. Even 
hogs are said to be liable to the contagion. The milk and flesh of diseased cattle are 
said to be poisonous, and an instance is related where a dog died shortly after partak- 
ing of the milk of a diseased cow. As a consequence, there is some excitement 
among beef eaters and milk consumers." 

Crops and Stock in Gheat Britain — Cattle Disease. — London, September 
29th, 1871. — The Telegraph of the 19fch says, editorially : " There is no longer much 
room to doxibt that to the misfortune of a deficient harvest will be added the disaster 
of the cattle plague. Foot and mouth diseases are spreading among the horned stock 
of the kingdom with deplorable rapidity. Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, and 
Huntingtonshire are the three English counties chiefly affected. It has spread as far 
north as Perthshire. To give a clearer idea of its ravages, in one county, in which 
is the City of Preston, up to Saturday last, four thousand eight hundred and seventy 
cattle were attacked. It has already spread over seventy-three British counties, and 
is also spreading in Ireland. The number of animals suffering is estimated at twenty- 
five thousand, but the pest involves sheep and swine. Besides this disease which 
attracts attention, pleuro-pneumonia has also appeared. This deadly malady is rav- 
aging the herds in thirty-one counties of England and thirteen in Scotland and doing 
a certain degree of damage in Ireland." 

"Deaths by Trichinosis. — Marengo (111.) December 31st, 1871. — A fifth mem- 
ber of the German family living near Geneva, who suffered from trichinosis, has now 
expired. Fears are yet entertained that the surviving siifierers cannot recover, 
although they are now receiving every care and assistance possible. The death 
stricken family occupy the place known as the Maloney Farm, in the Town of Hamp- 
shire, Kane County, and are of German nationality, and save through their recent 
terrible sufferings are little known in this neighborhood. A man named Cowles, who 
worked on the Maloney Farm and boarded with this family, has for days past also 



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been sufferino- with the malady, and his recovery is despaired of. Besides Cowles, the 
German family attacked w.ith the disease consisted of an elderly man and woman, two 
ffirls one of them fifteen years of age, and the other somewhat younger, two men in 
the prime of life, a boy about four years of age, and a young woman— the first victim 
of the frio-htful and loathsome disease. The spectacle of suffering presented by the 
unfortuna'te survivors is absolutely frightful. Stretched upon their backs, their limbs 
as rio-id as if in death and swollen by pain ; their eyeballs almost darting from their 
sockets and rolling from excruciating tortures ; their tongues so dry that speech is 
almost impossible, and the entire frame so sensitive that the shghtesjt movement 
causes stings and pangs of torment that evidently exceed all other afflictions that 
flesh is heir to. Human suffering is indeed here presented in its most hideous and 
repulsive aspect, as one looks upon their slowly wasting forms, possessed by millions 
of restless and devouring creatures, whose food they are, and whose fecundity is 
continually adding fresh swarms to the myriad of ravenous atoms that not and least 
in the muscles and flesh of the prostrated sufferers. A microscopic examination of 
the sausa-es and ham eaten by the family showed that the trichmfe existed in the 
meat in immense quantities, and portions of the flesh taken from one of the deceased 
victims exhibited their presence in almost indescribable numbers, a medical gentle- 
man present estimating that there must be no less than forty thousand of the trichinae 
to the cubic inch. The specimens found in the human tissues were not fully developed 
and were, as a general rule, in groups. They were evidently living as they exhibited 
animation by a peculiar and wavy motion, and by frequently stretching out and then 
closing together with great rapidity. These specimens are now in possession of Dr. 
Winchester of El^'-in. There is a rumor now that there are some cases of trichinosis 
in Rockford, but tlie report is questionable; and it is also reported that a teamster 
living at Belvidere, who had eaten pork at the house of the German family alluded 
to, is at the point of death. The latter is believed to be correct, and from tlie expres- 
sions heard on all sides in the vicinity of the terrible malady, it is ^evident that but 
few people hereabout will go the ' whole hog ' as an article of food. • v i. 

Mr F G. Welch, Instructor in the Department of Physical Culture m Yale 
Collet savs : " To consider man anatomically, he is decidedly a vegetable-eating 
animal. He is not constructed like a flesh-eating animal ; he has not claws like the 
lion the ti-er, or the cat ; but his teeth are short and smooth like those of the horse, 
the cow, and the fruit-eating animals. Man is naturally a vegetable-eating anima ; 
how, th;n, can he possibly be injured by abstinence from flesh? A man by way of 
experiment, ^oas made to live entirely on animal food and hav^ng persevered ten days 
symptoms of incipient putrefaction began to be mamfested. Eating much flesh tend^ 
Z cUminish mental activity. How wrong, then, for those who devote t^^emselves to 
study to indulge largely in the use of meats ! There can be no question but that the 
use of fle^i tends to create a grossness of body and spirit. The objec ions, then, are 
threefold-intellectual, moral and physical. Its tendency is to depreciate moral sen- 
timent check intellectual activitv, and to derange the fluids of the body by stimula- 
t on if^ not essential to physical energy and strength The slaughtering of 
animals is a horrid^ business, a perfect outrage on every feelmg of humanity, every 
sentiment of right." 

Now besides all these diseases, the flesh of healthy ani- 
mals is' often made to be diseased and unfit for eating by 
beino- taken to market. They are sometimes terribly over- 
heated in driving, and then allowed suddenly to become 
chilled in the butcher's corral or yard, or by chilling storms, 
2:erminatino; fevers or other disease; or driven m large masses 
into crowded stalls, on steamers or cars, and go hungry tor 
days, while they, in frantic fury and apparently m pertect 
ao-onv -ore and gouge each other until it would seem that 
their whole bodies would become a perfect mass ot^ corrup- 
tion. Calves carried in carts to market, with their heads 
hano-in^ over the sides and endboards, jolting along over 
rough 1 oads, until, almost in a dying state with their tongues 
hanging out and their glazed eyes almost leaping from their 
3 



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sockets, when they are inhumanly thrown upon the sidewalk 
to flounder in the blazing sun, and hiy for hours before being 
slaughtered. ' • 

Turkeys, chickens, and other fowls, with legs tied, hung 
across a horse and carried head downwards until crazed and 
almost dying with pain, and while squawking murder in pit- 
eous tones, the only language they can use. In this condition 
they are slaughtered and eaten with a wonderful relish, l^o 
wonder our insane asylums are kept filled. But in justice to 
those who slaughter them, I wish to say right here, that they 
are no worse than those who eat them. 

I will now change the picture, and read a few short extracts 
from the writings of some of our most noted and scientific 
physicians who have experienced the results of living on a 
mixed flesh and vegetable, and also on a purely vegetable, 
diet, prefaced by a few words of my own experience. 

In July, 1864, soon after I was taken uncler spiritual con- 
trol, I was commanded, in as emphatic and imperative a 
manner as if it had been delivered in thunder tones (though 
no audible voice was heard), "to abstain from the use of ani- 
mal food ; that flesh was the fruit which God commanded 
Adam not to eat in the Garden of Eden." I replied, I will 
obey or die in the attempt to obey. It is well known to 
many of my Sacramento acquaintances how severely my 
faithfulness has been tried since that time. For the first 
three years I was made to live the most of the time on an 
ounce of food at a meal, until I became almost a perfect 
skeleton. Perhaps once in three, or sometimes six months, 
I was allowed a little more for two or three days, and then 
reduced to the ounce again of, generally, crackers, and water 
for my drink. But since that time I have been allowed 
about my usual quantity of food, but not a particle of flesh, 
l^either have I drank but a little tea or coflee, and for nearly 
two years not a drop of either, except twice, I have merely 
tasted of them. My present food is principally^ bread and 
boiled potatoes, seasoned with salt, and sometimes a few rai- 
sins, and my drink is water. Though I am instructed not 
to drink until after eating (unless very thirsty), but to let the 
saliva only moisten the food before swallowing, as the saliva 
is greatly needed in the stomach to assist in the process of 
digestion. With this abstemious diet — about eight ounces 
at a meal — I find both my mental and physical strength im- 
proving. So much so, that I am willing to wrestle, run a 
foot race, or labor at anything we both understand and can 
conveniently work at, with any man of my age and weight 
who eats flesh; and he who beats in two of these tests shall 
be declared the champion. We will both board at the same 



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house one month, while training, and he shall let me see that 
he eats the usual quantity of flesh — beefsteak, pork, etc. — 
and whatever else he pleases, and he may see that I eat noth- 
ing except what is above named, and my drink shall be water. 
He may drink what he chooses. The cost of my food shall 
not exceed ten cents per da}^, but he may eat ten dollars worth 
if he likes. 

I advise the laboring class to learn now to live cheap, e'er 
the money monopolists bind our chains any tighter, or we 
must in time learn to submit to be serfs. 

But I would not advise any person to commence living so 
abstemiously, except they come to it by degrees. They can 
leave off' flesh at once; but eggs, butter, cheese, milk, pud- 
dings, pies, cakes, tea, and coffee, leave off by degrees, in the 
order in which they are named, one at a time, as judgment 
dictates. Eggs are safest cooked hard. A perfectly healthy 
stomach can digest a soft yelk and receive no injury; but if 
there is fever in the stomach, the soft yelk will become hard, 
like cement, in the stomach, similar to that we frequently see 
on a plate, and remain undigested for da^-s, reducing the sys- 
tem to a feeble state, entirely unprotected, and at the mercy 
of colds and of any disease that may be prowling about in the 
vicinity. But the yelk of a hard cooked egg is like cooked 
Indian meal, and we can no more make cement of it than 
we can of Indian meal. 'No more than three or four kinds 
of food, including dessert, should be indulged in at any one 
meal ; and if reduced to bread alone, no evil consequences 
will follow. With abstinence from the first four of the 
articles of food in the foregoing list goes the last lingering 
desire for whisky and tobacco, which desire is very much 
abated on abstaining from flesh. The question, then, origi- 
nates itself, how can we shorten puddings, pies, and cakes, 
if restricted from using animal fat or butter ? I answer, 
w^ith pure olive oil, and no person can taste the difference 
between that and other shortenings, unless used to excess. 
How unnecessary, then, the cruel practice of slaughtering 
swine to rob their bodies of the fat for shortening I 

I am frequently asked why whisky is not as useful and 
harmless to the human system as bread, if made of the same 
material. I am instructed that it is not made of the same 
material. That if it was, and there exists in grain, as dis- 
tillers contend, sixteen quarts of proof whisky in thirty-two 
quarts of grain, four quarts of grain (a common feed for a 
horse) would contain two quarts of whisky, which would 
intoxicate him; and that a half pound of bread w^ould intox- 
icate a man; that whisky is ether supplied to the atmos- 
phere by the great ethereal ocean beyond, and is attracted 



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from the atmosphere by the mash or beer while undergoing 
the process of fermentation. Therefore he who prepares his 
mash the most ingeniously to attract the ether from the 
atmosphere will succeed in making the greatest number of 
gallons of whisky to the bushel of grain. 

On September 5th, 1870, I was solicited by an elderly gen- 
tleman, who afterwards died in our city hospital, to buy Dr. 
Beach's "Family Practice," published in 1865. He said 
that Dr. Beach was a vegetarian, and named a page which 
he wished me to peruse. My time was too much occupied 
at the time to read it, but I bought the book, more to pat- 
ronize hira than anything else, on account of his being in 
feeble health. 

In a day or two I read the page he referred me to, and to 
my agreeable surprise I found the first corroborating testi- 
mony, except my own version of Bible authority, I then 
remembered ever to have read or heard of in relation to 
animal food being the forbidden fruit, which idea I had so 
silently given to me six years before. I will read the article 
as my first quotation. 



P 



ECTION 



Dr. Beach says: "It appears very evident that man, in his 
primeval state of simplicity, never ate any animal food what- 
ever. Previous to his transgression he was not permitted to 
kill any animals nor partake of meat, as appears by the com- 
mand of his Maker, recorded in the Bible. Vegetables seem 
to have been his only food. From this fact we may infer 
that vegetable is more congenial to the S3^stem than animal 
food. We may infer this also from the effects which fol- 
low the long continued use of meat. Sailors who use it on 
long voyages are subject to scurvy, which often proves fatal, 
when a recurrence to vegetables immediately removes the 
disease. A vast number of other complaints are unquestion- 
ably produced by animal food. The evil consequences aris- 
ing from it are in part owing to the quantities of oil or grease 
it contains, by which the digestion is disordered, the bile 
vitiated, the blood corrupted, and cutaneous and other dis- 
eases induced. 

" Injurious effects are very fre.quently immediately felt after 
eating a meal of high seasoned meats, such as oppression at 
the stomach, lethargy, and subsequently, if persisted in, dys- 
pepsia and other complaints. 

"Animal food, then, may in general be considered hurtful, 
and requires a very strong and healthy stomach to digest it. 



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When animal food and wine have been received into tlie 
stomach, no sooner is the digestion process begun, even 
before any portion is introduced into the circulating fluid, 
than the Action of the heart is increased, and the pulse is 
quickened, but the same effect is not observed from vegeta- 
bles." ,. ,, ^. , , 
Dr. Parish says : " Animal food is too highly stimulant. 
The sprino:s of life are urged on too fast, and disease neces- 
sarily follows, such as bitious, plethoric, and inflammatory 
state of the system. The celebrated Alex. Munroe states 
that animal food produces the hot, alkalescent scurvy, a 
fierce and sava2;e temper, (a peculiar feature), and leprosv, 
with a corruption of all the juices, which is onl}^ to be cured 
by a chano-e of diet. Amonsr other ill effects of animal food 
is a temporary fever after eating it, called by the old medical 
writers the fever of digestion. No such effects follow the 
use of vegetable food." . -, ^i , • i 
Dr Cheyne says: "I am almost convinced that animal 
food was never intended for man, but only permitted as a 
punishment. First, to let him feel and experience the nat- 
ural and necessary effects of his own lusts by painful disease; 
second, to shorten the duration of his natural hfe, that sm 
and misery might not increase infinitely. .,-,., . 
''Veo-etable food is much lighter, more easily digested, 
and much less inclined to putrify than animal food Besides, 
from the natural stimulus which it possesses, the bile is ren- 
dered more healthy, by which the regular peristaltic motion 
of the bowels is kept up, and costiveness, the source ot so 
many evils, is obviated. , , i^i • i 
" That man is capable of sustaining the health, vigor, and 
streno-th of his system upon a diet purely vegetable is estab- 
lished by so many proofs as to place the fact beyond the pos- 
sibility of doubt. ^ . 1 , 

" The Hindoo lives almost exclusively upon rice and water. 
A ^reat portion of the Irish peasantry subsist upon potatoes, 
with the addition of oaten cake or bread and milk, and the 
laboring classes in many districts in Scotland and the north 
of Eu^fand are nourished upon little else than oatmeal and 
potatoes, while in various other countries of Europe the poor 
are restricted almosfexclusively to a vegetable diet even less 

nourishinsf than these. ^ . m • ^ 4.-+ 

"When the food just referred to is in sufficient quantity 
and of o-ood quality, more robust, active, and vigorous frames 
and a «"eater amount of general health can scarcely be met 
with if the inhabitants of any oth-^^^^^tiy or among any 
other class of society, whatever may be their diet. Vegeta- 



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ble food affords as much or more nutrition than animal, while 
the former produce much less excitement." 

George Paine, Esq., of Providence, Phode Island, says: 
*' A mulatto girl came to live in my family in Her twelfth 
year. Previous to this she had remained at her home with 
her parents, who were very poor. During her Summers she 
had subsisted upon fruits in the natural state, and through 
the whole year she ate very little except the plainest vegeta- 
ble food. On very rare occasions she ate a little flesh, but 
not enough to render it in any proper sense a part of her 
diet. She drank water exclusively, and slept on straw. 
When she first came to live with me her suppleness, activity, 
agility, and strength so far exceeded anything we had ever 
seen before in such a child, that she absolutely filled us with 
astonishment by her feats. Of her own accord she was up 
in the morning as soon as it was light, and wherever she 
went she always went with a run, and with the nimbleoess 
and fleetness of a deer. In all her movements she exhibited 
uncommon natural ease and gracefulness, and in her muscu- 
lar eftbrts she evinced a surprising degree of strength. She 
would for her own amusement often throw herself down at 
length upon the grass and imitate the motions of a snake so 
exceedingly like a snake, that it sometimes gave one very 
unpleasant feelings to look at her; and in a great variety of 
ways she exhibited the most wonderful suppleness, nimble- 
ness, and agility that I ever beheld in a human body. Her 
mind seemed to be as active and vigorous as her body. Her 
power of mental apprehension and retention, and facetious- 
ness and wit were a continual source of surprise and amuse- 
ment to us. On coming into my family she began gradually 
to accustom herself to flesh meat, and in the course of two 
or three months she became very fond of it, and ate it freely; 
and to our astonishment, (for we could not then account for 
the change), in less than six months all her remarkable sup- 
pleness, activity, and strength were gone, and she had become 
exceedingly sluggish, heavy, and stupid. We could not get 
her up in the morning until breakfast time, without special 
and direct means ; all her movements became slow, heavy, 
and sluggish, indicating great indolence, and her mind became 
as stupid and inactive as her bod}^; arid such she has ever 
remained since, being now fifteen years old." 

" I took a boy from the alms house in the year 1827," says 
Mr. Thomas H. Burling, of Westchester County, 'New York. 
" He was then in his thirteenth year, and had always before 
this subsisted entirely on vegetable food. When he first 
came to my house he was remarkably supple and nimble, 
and would throw a summerset backward two or three times 



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ill succession with great ease. I had a notion that he would 
be good for nothing for work unless he ate flesh, and so I 
encouraged and urged him to do so. He soon became fond 
of flesh and ate it freely, and in less than six weeks he 
became so clumsy that whenever he attempted to throw a 
summerset he fell like a log." 

" I returned from Greece with Captain Floyd in the ship 
Factor," says the venerable Judge Woodruff*, of Conuecticut, 
who went out as the agent of the ^N'ew York committee for 
the relief of the Greeks. '' There came over with us to 
New York, as one of the ship's crew, a Greek youth — a 
native of Thessaly — whom we called John. He was nine- 
teen years old. He had from his childhood been driven 
about among the Turks, almost in the condition of a dumb 
beast, and subsisted on the plainest, simplest, and coarsest 
vegetable food, mostly in a natural state and chiefly fruit. 
His nimbleness and activity far exceeded anything that I 
ever before saw* in a human being. Without exaggeration 
I can truly say that he would run up and down the shrouds 
and jump about on the rigging with all the nimbleness and 
rapidity of a squirrel. Indeed, his exploits of nimbleness on 
the rigging often filled me with amazement, which was some- 
times mingled with fear for his safety." 

An intelligent farmer of Pennsylvania whose health had 
for some time been declining, and who at the age of sixty 
years, finding himself completely broken down and laid by 
with all the infirmities of a premature old age, w^as induced 
to adopt a simple diet of vegetable food and water, with the 
hope of mitigating in some degree the severity of his suflTer- 
ings. Of the effects of this experiment he thus expresses 
himself: "In less than twelve months from the time I com- 
menced living on my abstemious vegetable and water diet, I 
was perfectly" restored to health, and seemed to have renewed 
my life. I was entirely free from every pain and ailment, 
and was very active and vigorous, and more serenely and 
truly cheerful and happy than ever before since my child- 
hood. My sight improved astonishingly, insomuch that, 
whereas before" my change of diet I could with difficulty see 
to read with the best glasses I could procure, now I could 
easily read the finest print of my newspapers without glasses. 
But the most wonderful effect was produced, on my mind, 
which became far more clear, active, and vigorous than it 
had ever been before. Indeed, no one who has not experi- 
enced the same can have any adequate conception of the real 
intellectual luxury which I enjoyed. It seemed as if my 
soul was perfectly free from all clogging embarrassments and 
influence of the body. I could command and apply my 



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thoughts at pleasure, and was able to study and investigate 
the most abstruse subjects, and to write with an ease, perspi- 
cuity, and satisfaction which I had never known nor had any 
idea of." 

" You ask me," says Plutarch, ''why Pythagoras abstained 
from eating the flesh of brutes. For my part I am aston- 
ished to think,, on the contrary, what appetite first induced 
man to taste of a dead carcass ; or what motive could sug- 
gest the notion of nourishing himself with the- flesh of ani- 
mals which he saw the moment before bleating, bellowing, 
walking, and looking about them. How could he bear to 
see an impotent and defenseless creature slaughtered, skinned, 
and cut up for food ? We should therefore rather wonder 
at the conduct of those who first indulged themselves in this 
horrible repast, than at such as have humanely abstained 
from it." 

Dr. Abernethy says: "If you put improper food into the 
stomach it becomes disordered, and the wliole system is 
aftected. The effects of animal food and other improper 
stimulants upon the system likewise induce preposterous 
noses, blotches on the face and other parts of the body, 
gout, apoplexy, inflammation of the eyes, and decay of the 
teeth." 

Martial says : " The throat has destroyed more than the 
sword. The nations that subsist on vegetable diet are of all 
men the handsomest, the most robust, the least exposed to 
disease and violent passions, and they attain the greatest 
longevity. The Brarnins of India, wdio frequently survive a 
century, eat nothing but vegetables. From the Pythagorean 
school, which was vegetable-eating, issued forth Epaminon- 
das, so renowned for his virtues; Archytas, so celebrated for 
his skill in mechanics, and Milo, of Crotona, for his strength. 
As vegetable diet has a necessary connection with many vir- 
tues and excludes none, it must be of importance to accus- 
tom young persons to it, seeing its influence so powerfully 
contributes to beauty of person and tranquillity of soul. The 
children of the Persians, in the time of Cyrus and by his 
orders, were fed with bread, water, and cresses ; and Lycur- 
gus introduced a considerable part of the physical and moral 
regimen of these children into the education of those of 
Lacedemon. Such diet prolongs infancy, and of course the 
duration of human life." 

Bell says : " It is not, I think, going too far to say that 
every fact connected with the human organization goes to 
prove that man was originally formed for a frugivorous ani- 
mal." 

It has been ascertained by the most careful experiments 



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that the various kinds of flesh meats average about thirty- 
five per cent of nutritious matter, while rice, wheat, ana 
other kinds of grain afford from eighty to ninety-five per 

"'^Howard, the philanthropist, after testing the effect of a 
vegetable diet personally, and while exposed to plague, pes- 
tillnce, the foulest dungeons, filled with malignant infec- 
tions, remarks : " I am firmly persuaded, as to the health ot 
our bodies, that herbs and fruits will sustain nature m every 
respect far beyond the best flesh. Animal food produces the 
following effects : First-It is more stimulating than vegeta- 
ble foodf Second-It increases the action of the heart and 
arteries, and thus causes a quicker pulse and hotter skin. 
Third— The chyle and blood taken from a living vessel 
formed by animal food, becomes sooner putrid than that 
formed from vegetable food. Fourth-The human body has 
more power to endure fatigue and resist disease when nour- 
ished by good vegetable food, than when nourished by flesh 

An "elegant writer of the last age speaks thus of intemper- 
ance and diet: "For my part, when I behold a fashionab e 
Uh\e%et out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gou s 
and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable 
distempers, lying in ambuscade among the cUslies. 

Section 5. 

I have now proved by the best written testimony in exist- 
ence—the Bible— that God does not sanction the use of flesh 
foi food, but strictlv commands that it shall not be ea en. 
Ti AcSm He says, ''On the clay that thou eatest thereo hou 
Shalt surely die." To Noah He says, "But flesh with the lite 
he eo^'^ich is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat; and 
t rely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hands 
of eve.7 beast will I require it, and at the hand ot mai . 
In the Ten Commandments He says, "Thou shalt not k 11, 
but is not definite in regard to what should not be killed; 
S d Chit as if to make the commandment still more plain 
savs " Thou Shalt do no murder." As the kil ing ot an ox 
slhe san e as the killing a man, as Isaiah proclaims it to be 
and he is aoknowledged°by all to be the very best of author- 
itv~l then the killing of any animal is murder, 
^i' have proved to "you by numerous extracts f^om .^Jfoi 
the best journals of the day that the lower a>nma ^ « fli ed 
with various loathsome diseases, and are consequently not 



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the proper food for man. I have also proved to joii by 
extracts from the writiiis^s of many of our most able physi- 
cians that the eating of the carcasses of these animals entails 
upon the whole human family all the sad realities of sick- 
ness, sorrow and death. These physicians are also unani- 
mous in the opinion that vegetable food, as ordained by God 
himself, is the only proper food for man, and that if it is 
exclusivel}^ used entails upon the human family liealth, both 
physical and mental vigor, and longevity. Therefore, not- 
withstanding the eating" of the flesh of animals has "brought 
death into the world, and all our woe," we have the cheer- 
ing assurance that " there is yet balm in Gilead and a physi- 
cian there," who will, if properly applied to, kindly soothe 
all our woes. That balm is the rich juices of vegetable food, 
accompanied with pure water for our drink, "as God has 
mixed the ingredients; and that physician is the eternal God 
himself, who is so mindful of us that the very "hairs of our 
head are numbered," and " not a sparrow falls to the ground 
without His notice," and " gives good gifts to them that ask 
Him," etc. In order to take full and entire advantage of 
the inestimable ofiers He sets before us, we must remember 
that there are " two immutable things in which it is impos- 
sible for God to lie" that we must comply with. We must 
not only abstain from eating the " forbidden fruit," but we 
must submit our wills to God, so that He " may be all in 
all." God is not now all in all. He has given to man his 
will, and that has become the law of the world, as sanctioned 
by God himself In witness of which I will introduce the 
scene of God's acceptance of the offering of Abel, which 
was "the firstlings of the flock and the fat thereof," which 
was in accordance with the will of man, and rejecting the 
ofiering of Cain " of the fruits of the ground," which was 
in accordance with the broken command of God. He will 
never take from us the privilege of exercising our own will, 
but has commanded that we must surrender it of our own 
accord ; " that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, 
of things in Heaven and things in earth, and things under 
the earth. And every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ 
is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." When this is 
complied with then " God will be all in all." He will be all 
in all with each one separately, as fast as we submit. And 
when these two requirements are complied with, I verily 
believe that God will so rule us in the selection of our food, 
that perennial health, perpetual youth, eternal life, and end- 
less felicity on earth will be the result, which will be wealth 
in profusion. 

This is what I am influenced to term the true philosopher's 



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stone, so much songht for by all. If we comply with these 
two requirements, they will'lead us to " love God with all 
the heart, and our neighbor as ourselves. And on these two 
hang all the law and the prophets." We need two divines 
whe're we now have but one,^to proclaim the "good tidings 
of great joy which shall be unto all people," and to pre- 
pare our minds for the great change. Then let us in good 
earnest " lay hold of the hope set before us," " put off the 
old man" by purification, and "put on the new."^ -'For 
this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mor- 
tal must put on immortality." (N'ot this spirit put on im- 
mortality, for that always was immortal.) " So when this 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal 
shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass 
the saying that is written: death is swallowed up in victory." 
The great Apostle then boastingly exclaims: "Oh death! 
where is thy sting ? grave ! where is thy victory ? " There 
will be no such thing, then, as the " sting of death," for 
when the body is purified it cannot die ; and the grave will 
of course lose its victory. 

To illustrate: Suppose a watchmaker to be possessed of 
genius sufficient to invent a liquid substance holding in solu- 
tion all the difiierent materials of which a watch is composed, 
which he could introduce into some small vessel (closed by 
valves which operate by attraction) within the watch case in 
such a manner as not to impede its running. Then suppose 
each ingredient in the solution possessed of exactly the proper 
affinity ^for its kind, to be attracted to any part of the watch 
as the natural wear by friction may require, so as to keep the 
watch in perfect repair, as when new. Is it not plain to be 
seen that the watch so eternally supplied would last eternally? 
Now suppose a man's will as much in subjection to God's 
will as the watch material is to the watchmaker's, is it not 
reasonable to suppose that God could introduce a solution 
into the man's stomach, by ruling him at all times to eat 
exactly the quality and quantity of food required, to make 
the man last eternally also ? It is much less difficult for us 
to comprehend than the eternal rounds of the celestial orbs, 
the eternal continuance of the seasons, day and night, etc. 

I want now to impress particularly upon your minds a few 
ideas in short hand, a part of which is a repetition of what I 
have already said, together with some others which my lec- 
ture could not contain if dwelt upon at length without being 
too lono-. And first, the Bible is the Word of God. But it is 
not all commands, neither is it all penalties for disobeying 
commands ; neither is it all laws and ordinances ; nor is it 
all historical accounts of the times and actions of men, but 



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it comprises all of these and more. But rest assured it is all 
a dead letter and forever will remain so to those who eat the 
forbidden fruit and do not submit their will to God. " Ask 
and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and it 
shall be opened unto you." But we may ask, seek, and 
knock until doom's day, and we shall not be replied to unless 
we obey the commands given long before this advice to ask, 
seek, and knock was given to us. We must not ask w^ith 
lips stained with blood and hearts ready to shed more, wdiile 
the command, viz: " But flesh with the life thereof, which is 
the blood thereof, shall ye not eat," remains uncanceled; or, 
if we do, we must expect to ask amiss, for our requests will 
not be heeded. 

I want to tell you again that Heaven was upon earth, and 
will be again when man prepares himself by purification to 
receive it, and never can be anywhere else. The very fact 
of God's confounding the Babel tower builders and scatter- 
ing them abroad in the world, is sufficient to teach any man 
that they were seeking for it in the wrong direction. It is 
not up yonder. It is on the earth, or was, and will be again 
when man prepares himself to receive it. The very fact that 
Christ prayed " Thy kingdom come," (not we go to Thy 
kingdom,) is sufficient to prove that it is to be here. The 
very fact of natural death destroying the faculties, through 
the medium of which only we receive or enjoy happiness, is 
sufficient proof. For what do we know of happiness except 
through the five senses ? And what do we know of misery, 
except through these five senses ? l^othing, except memory 
of the past. Therefore Heaven and Hell are both on the 
earth, and nowhere else. The spirits of the departed know 
nothing about either happiness or misery. They have lost 
all faculty for the enjoyment of the one or the suffering of 
the other. They are in the same condition that they were 
in in the days of Adam, as represented by the great Milton 
in the discourse between Adam and Eve on retiring to rest. 
Milton, as if inspired, while speaking of the rays of the 
celestial orbs, represents Adam as saying to Eve : 

" These, then, tho' unbeheld in deep of night, 

Shine not in vain — nor think tho' men were none — 
That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. 
All these with ceaseless praise His works behold, 
Both day and night. How often from the steep 
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard 
Celestial voices to the midnight air, 
Sole or responsive, each to other's note 
Singing their Great Creator. Oft in bands, 



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While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, 
With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, 
In full harmonic number joined, their songs 
Divide the night, and lift our thoughts to heaven. 
Thus talking, hand in hand, alone they passed 
On to their blissful bower. " 

The spirits of the departed return to this same state, as 
represented by Milton at the beginning, l^one of them 
have seen God, neither do they know anything about Heaven 
or Hell ; but are waiting to be resurrected or reinstated in 
a new body, in which they can work out through a new pro- 
bation their ow^n salvation by purifying a body for eternal 
life on earth, when God shall again set up His kingdom on 
earth, which He has promised to do, and the great principles 
that are being demonstrated on earth during this nineteenth 
century presage that it is '^ near at hand, even at the door." 
The development of steam power — the rail car — as propheti- 
cally spoken of by ITahum, second chapter, third and fourth 
verses : " The chariots shall be with flaming torches in the 
dsij of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly 
shaken. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall 
jostle one against the other in the broad ways; they shall 
seem like torches ; they shall run like the lightnings." The 
development of the principles of telegraphing, so long ago 
foretold by the Lord out of the whirlwind, in answering Job, 
thirty-eighth chapter, thirty-fifth verse : " Canst thou send 
lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, here we are ? " 
The extra development in all the difterent branches of arts 
and sciences, musical talent, musical instruments — grand 
organs and other instruments — with which we worship God, 
which we are all so happy in doing, even though our doc- 
trinal tenets are so diametrically opposed to each other ; the 
development of the difterent gold fields just at this time, 
which are spreading the comforts of life more broadcast than 
ever was known before. And when all the difterent princi- 
ples, comforts, and conveniences which God has designed for 
us, as fast as we purify and prepare ourselves to receive 
them, and which are being developed more rapidly under 
our Government than any other, have all been bestowed 
upon us, then ''shall come the end of the world," (meaning 
the end of man's dominion or government,) as is questioned 
in regard to privately by the disciples, (Matt, xxiv : 3,) and 
answered by Chirst in the fourteenth verse : " And this gos- 
pel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a 
witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." Then 
the kingdom of God will be established on earth, and "flesh 
and blood" can enjoy it. Who has not wondered why the 



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California gold fields were left undiscovered until the middle 
of the nineteenth century? I will answer. It was a whole- 
sale measure for the purpose of disseminating " to the utter- 
most parts of the- earth" a knowledge of the Gospel which 
is " good tidings of great joy," and a knowledge of the true 
" God, whom to know is life eternal," and reserved for use 
when all other schemes should fail. People have assemhled 
here from all the continents, from all the islands of the Atlan- 
tic and of the Pacific, from pagan countries of ignorant and 
idolatrous worship of stone, wood, and golden images, and 
of the sun, moon, etc., and unconsciously, while digging our 
gold, have learned our ideas of the true God, our language, 
which is to be the universal language of the world, and our 
principles of a republican form of government, which is the 
last and highest stepping stone towards a theocracy, or govern- 
ment of God. And after digging gold to their satisfaction, 
they have returned again to their homes to spend it, and in 
doing so have heralded the Gospel, which is good tidings of 
great joy, to the uttermost parts of the earth, on which the 
kingdom of God is to be established. " Blessed is he that 
shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." (Luke xiv: 15.) I 
know that it is claimed by many that the kingdom of God 
can never be on the earth, because "flesh and blood cannot 
inherit the kingdom of God." And I agree with them, 
because it is Scripture; and second, because it cannot be 
inherited; it must be earned. Each and all for themselves 
" must work out their own salvation with fear and trem- 
bling." But righteous conduct can receive it as a reward 
for righteousness, and then flesh and blood can enjoy it, 
which is all we ask. The righteous are those who give to 
every living thing its rights. "A righteous man regardeth 
the life of his beast." (Prov. xii: 10.) Wherever righteous 
conduct is strictly observed, together with the cheerful exer- 
cise of faith, hope, and charity, there is the kingdom of God, 
and flesh and blood can enjoy it. Did not Christ say to the 
Pharisees, " The kingdom of God is within you. Were they 
not flesh and blood? " The kingdom of God was within them 
at that time, as King David was once a man after God's own 
heart, when he slew the bear and the lion that invaded his 
father's sheep fold. And they might have lost it again in 
an hour afterwards, as David lost the honor of being a man 
after God's own heart when he ordered Uriah into the front 
ranks to be slain, so that he might obtain his wife. Prov. x: 
30 says: "The righteous shall never be removed from the 
earth." Prov. xi: 31 says: "The righteous shall be recom- 
pensed in the earth." Matt, xxv : 46 says: "The righteous 
go into life eternal." ^ow if the righteous are recompensed 



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in the earth and shall never be removed from the earth, then 
eternal life must be enjoyed on the earth. That is certainly 
plain and positive. And we also have the testimony in Eev. 
xxi: 3, corroborating the same. "And I heard a great voice 
out of Heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with 
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His peo- 
ple, and God himself shall be with them and be their God." 
And the nineteenth verse of chapter eleventh says: "And 
the temple of God was opened in Heaven, and there was 
seen in His temple the ark of the testament; and there were 
lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, 
and great hail." And verse fifteen says: "The kingdoms 
of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of 
His Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." 

^ow what does this mean, if it does not mean exactly 
what the power controlling me proclaims? That when the 
commandments are obeyed, all the kingdoms of this world, 
embracing all nations and kindreds of the earth, are all to 
be massed under one common head, with one language, one 
law, and one eclectic religion — made out of the cardinal 
principles or tenets of all religions on the face of the earth. 
That God's kingdom is to be set up under our repubhcan 
form of government; that the stars of our banner are -em- 
blematical of universal dominion, and that Christ at His sec- 
ond advent, which is near at hand, will take the government 
upon his shoulders, not only as the ecclesiastical head of the 
Church, but as temporal ruler, exactly as the Jews expected 
Him to do at His first advent; and that He will by the cords 
of His love draw all men unto Him, and rule and reign for- 
ever and ever. Tlien the kingdoms of this world, where 
there are lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and earth- 
quakes, and hail storms, will be Heaven. Let us all prepare 
tor it; and let us resolve to commence now. For "this night 
our souls" (which latter word is synonymous with lives, which 
go into nonentity at death,) may be required of us." Let us 
lirst submit our wills to God, and then " taste not, touch not, 
handle not that which all must perish with the using," and 
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